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Page 516 - [being] dystempered with cowld and age, he had great payne in his lymmes, his bloud being corrupted; therfore, to be eased of his payne by letting bloud, he repayred to the priores of Kyrkesly, which some say was his aunt, a woman very skylful in physique...

Page 74 - ... me comaunded the drery pitus fate Of hem of Troye in englysche to translate, The sege also and the destruccioun, Lyche as the latyn maketh mencioun, For to compyle, and after Guydo make, So as I coude, and write it for his sake...

Page 510 - Tale. In all the MSS. it is called the Cooke's Tale, and therefore I call it so in like manner : But had I found it without an Inscription, and had been left to my Fancy to have bestow'd it on which of the Pilgrims I had pleas'd, I should certainly have adjudg'd it to the Squire's Yeoman; who tho as minutely describ'd by Chaucer, and characteriz'd in the third Place, yet I find no Tale of his in any of the MSS. And because I think there is not any one that would fit him so well as this, I have ventur'd...

Page 161 - PERICLES, Prince of Tyre, a Novel, by Geo. Wilkins, printed in 1608, and founded upon Shakespeare's Play, edited by PROFESSOR MOMMSEN, with Preface and Account of some original Shakespeare editions extant in Germany and Switzerland, and Introduction by JP COLLIER.